Pointless Prize: Golden Spike award

[arlcxrider]

To encourage more bikes on trains, and maybe something “fun” in the mix if the weather’s nasty, I’m offering the Golden Spike Award pointless prize.

THE RULES

1. Ride your bike to an active station where passengers board and alight. Location must have regularly scheduled passenger service. For example, the Vienna depot on the W&OD doesn’t count, neither does the old B&O station in Silver Spring. What constitutes “riding” to the station is on the honor system.
2. Intercity (Amtrak or equivalent), commuter rail (MARC, VRE, etc), heavy rail (WMATA, etc.) and light rail transit (DC Streetcar, Baltimore light rail) all count. Must be steel wheel on steel rail. (I will make an exception for Montreal.) Trolley buses (i.e., there is no fixed guideway) don’t count. Airport people movers don’t count.
3. Submissions to the forum must include a picture of the bike with a station sign.
4. Each station sign submission is worth one point and must be unique (no repeats.)
5. One submission per day of Freezing Saddles.
6. BONUS POINTS: board the train or light rail vehicle with your bike from one station and alight at another station. In that case you will claim three points. Must post a picture of your bike with the start station sign, end station sign, and your bike aboard the train to claim the three points.
7. BONUS POINT trips must be unique, but you could, for instance, board the Red Line at Silver Spring and ride to Union Station (three points) and the next day ride from Silver Spring to Rhode Island Ave and claim another three points.
8. Tie-breaking method will be at the sole discretion of the prize sponsor.
9. Useful, but not required, use hashtag #goldenspike on Strava.

Topic

[CaseyKane50]

3/2/2024 Metro Congress Heights

[celestesollod]

3/2/24 Woodberry Station, Baltimore Light Rail

[DCAKen]

3/2/24 L’Enfant VRE station

[Sophie CW]

3/2/24 – Union Station metro in DC

[antibozo]

2024-03-02 Seabrook MARC station

[DCAKen]

3/3/24 Alexandria Amtrak/VRE station

[consularrider]

#goldenspike – 3/3/2024 – North Bethesda (formerly White Flint) Metro Station, Red Line

 

[sszibler]

3/3/24 GoldenSpike

Cheverly Station

[consularrider]

#goldenspike – 3/4/2024 – Cumberland, Western Maryland Railroad Station.  This one may be stretching Rule #1 – There is regularly scheduled passenger service, but only out and back excursion.  If it’s too much I’ll remove the hashtag

[DCAKen]

3/4/24 Silver Spring metro station to Naylor Road metro station

[DCAKen]

3/5/24 Silver Spring metro station to Congress Heights metro station

[AlanA]

I know this won’t count since my bike isn’t in it, but this is the Point of Rocks  station.
One of the few RR Stations featured in a USPS stamp colletion from 2023.  The stamp looks a bit prettier than my picture.

 

 

 

[DCAKen]

3/6/24 Union Station DC Streetcar

[CaseyKane50]

3/7/2024 Metro Minnesota Avenue

[Sophie CW]

3/7/24 – Washington Grove MARC station in Gaithersburg

[Author]

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